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I think Eye-To-Eye - if I had a student with a learning disability that'd probably be
the first place I'd go before I even went to
you know the special ed
director or teacher I feel like
the program provides them with not only a community but it provides them with allies
to support them in their community
I've seen growth
I work for the Department of Education so I've seen the growth
and I've seen
the test scores of the students in Project Eye-To-Eye
takeoff
in that K-12
school system but I've also seen,
which I wasn't expecting to see but that I have also seen is the mentors and coordinators in
the program in Wyoming
really succeed, I had one student that,
she was one of our coordinators,
and she was on the fence about whether she was gonna stay in school or
you know, she didn't exactly know what she was going to do but she stuck it out and
she joined Project Eye-To-Eye
well later she attributed most of her success
to the fact that as a mentor and a coordinator
she learned how to advocate for herself and you know use her allies in her
community
and ask her professors for accommodations
so I've been able to see this work with
you know grades three through twelve and also post-secondary.
If I had an opportunity to talk to other educators about Project Eye-To-Eye
and how to utilize this
I would say that there's so many good things happening in the classroom and teachers
are doing
they absolute best to reach every student
and to allow for Eye-To-Eye to come into your school
would only be like icing on the cake and help them
use Eye-To-Eye as a tool
for these students
for how the teacher can't
maybe build their self-esteem or
teach them self-advocacy because teachers have so much else going on
that Eye-To-Eye is only
like maybe
an additive to that student's success in the classroom
that the teacher doesn't really
have the time maybe
to focus on.